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investigators in ukraine get down to the task of prosecuting alleged russian war crimes. for the $13000.00 cases could eventually come before the court. plus texas police under pressure over the elementary school massacre. as grieving families joined coles 1st picture, gun controls. there are questions over how long it took the emergency team to respond and help up. fever is gripping london. the swedish superstars the seventy's and eighty's launched their new show digital wizard. bree allows the group to appear on stage as their younger cell. ah, blue, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. ukraine is warning that russia's edging

closer to surrounding ukrainian troops in the eastern dawn bus region. russian forces are launching attacks on dozens of towns in the provinces of la hans and onions. the advance could be a turning point in moscow's efforts to consolidate control in the east ukrainian president laudermill zalinski is calling for more support from western allies for civilians under fire. it's increasingly difficult to find refuge from the fighting my flight. this is what life in ukraine's east looks like now. residents of the city of lucy chance desperate to escape the constant shelling shelter here in this basement. more than many here urgently need medical supplies, but traveling to get them is too risky. let only get so my father suffered a stroke and there are many others in these houses who need medication loads. i mean, decremental ukraine says the fighting in the east is fiercer than ever. with nearly

all of the lu hans district under josh and control. some of the shapes of scrub, the situation remains difficult and is getting worse. let's bring him. the enemy is using all its power and means to capture our territory and surround our troops. the fighting has reached its maximum intensity to day to mr. woodham with several mac, some on my income. certainly still, moscow has set a fight on gaining control of the dunbar. you preens industrial hot land, russian troops attempting to in so good ukrainian forces by seizing t hi vi's in the details. manage the, the current offensive by russia in the don bus could make the region uninhabitable . putting pressure on russia is literally a matter of saving lives and every day of delay weakness, debates, or proposals to pacify the aggressor at the expense of the victim means more ukrainians killed weight g grange. ukraine says 50 towns and the region came

under shelling thursday, which killed at least 9 people. for the reduction troops gaining ground, justin's hill, see no escape in sight. earlier i spoke to our correspondent rebecca richards in awe in kiev. i asked her how ukraine is doing in his efforts to stop russia advancing in the east. well, you heard a little bit there in that report, terry not, not very well at the moment. this is a really defining moment in this conflict and, and ukraine now admitting that they are losing the upper hand in the don't bass region. the governor of la hans saying that ukraine controls only 5 percent of that area now with russians advancing. that was last week. that was 10 percent so you can see that they really are moving forward. they are advancing in the ukrainians. really outnumbered by people and weapons, most of all, and they're just not able to stop them advancing. the russians are trying to in

circle troops around in lou hans around that city. sarah, have several done yet. it's been spoken about a lot in this part of the conflicts, and they are actually succeeding. they are surrounding that city by on 3 sides now . and they are, ukraine is really struggling to hold them back. russia now controls a substantial part of eastern and southern ukraine, much more territory than what the separatist fell before the invasion began. we know rebecca, what life is like for ukrainians living in those newly occupied regions? well, pretty dia, by all accounts. you had some, some accounts there in that report. i mean, what we've been hearing is that people are largely having to live under grounds. and people for weeks now have had very no, almost no utilities, no electricity's, no communication. and that fast running out of supplies, medicines, i mean it's hard enough for able bodied people living there in the region. but all

the more hard for those people, as you heard in that report, people have had strokes or who might be not able bodied. i mean, this is a really dire situation. they're struggling to get food. and we were hearing a couple of days ago that that aid was still able to get into some parts of lou hans. but as the russians advanced and met and cut off those roadways, that's becoming harder and harder and life will get harder for the people living there. in his latest video address, president zalinski accused the west of quote, playing around with russia instead of putting pressure on the kremlin. how worried is the government in chia that its western partners will let ukraine del well i think at this point quite worried terry. i mean that, you know, zalinski has been calling for weapons throughout this entire conflict. and he then was, you know, getting the response that he needed from the western community, particularly the u. s. and he seemed to be quite happy with what was being offered . but now, as we're seeing, the finding intensify that they're just out number,

he saying that, you know, it's all very well that you've pledged these weapons, but now can you please deliver them? and in fact, we need more. i mean, they certainly made things like multiple rocket launches and these sort of big a weapons because they just really outnumbered. i mean, in some areas we're hearing that for every rocket launch from the ukrainian side, you've got 10 to 20 coming back and the other direction. so they really outnumbered as well as he definitely worried that he's going to be left out in the cold here. really needing more support from the is national community, very critical of nato and quite critical of the you as well. rebecca, thank you very much. that was our correspondent rebecca ritter's there in chia to captured russian soldiers have pleaded guilty at the 2nd war crimes try trial to be held in ukraine. they're facing up to 12 years in prison for allegedly shelling civilian infrastructure. the case is just one of thousands that ukrainian authorities are investigating and fresh evidence of war crimes has found nearly every day. this report from d w max tonda contains images that could upset some viewers. deep inside the forest

lies in anonymous grace. whoever chose this place didn't want anyone to find it. 2 months after the end of the russian occupation here, the body of the ukrainian man was on earth. his passport found here by the police say, the death of the 56 year old civilian is linked to the russian aggression. nothing unusual. these days. the whole demo we found many and we will find more because a lot of people are still missing. a lot of people died. a lot of people were buried a much a bought the rules, a quote from the victims daughter is on the scene. she tells us her father went missing on the 18th of march during the russian occupation. it's neither, so she wishes i only know you won't doubt of his house and didn't return more you. i think he went to feed the dog of the neighbor who had left. i didn't know where else he would have gone with a lot of sticky leave. miss gibbons,

so far clues are limited as to what happened to her father. his passport shows red stains on it, possibly blood, butcher hostile mill hairpin. these towns have become synonymous with russian war cramps worth in. the 1000 people were killed in boucher alone. a neighbouring her pin, the cemetery has changed in appearance with hundreds of freshly dug graves to day streets and the area are lined with destroyed houses and shops all over town, reminders of horrific acts of violence like these cars attacked with weapons of war . so all the vehicles are see here are civilian vehicles that were used by people from boucher to try to flee from the russians and flee from the fighting. just like this vehicle over here. as we learned, it was struck in the back while trying to exit the town. it was hit by heavy machine gun fire and the bullets travel through the entire car hitting in the back

. next thing at the fronts and killing at least one person inside. one of more than 3000 war crimes that are now being investigated and the key of region alone, an arduous task. but authorities are making some games. we know we have already fixed that. so we conduct ourselves from russia on the in key region that to were mentioned here in our territory, and we don't so as it, so they went from special forces from russian federation. they came here, we have their names, their names, also even their families the default, but with them being out of reach of ukrainian authorities. what are the prospects of bringing these men to justice? but it's where they couldn't visit any, come to is a have possibility to be arrested. so anyway, you know that if somewhere they will come international court and international police officers and maybe all this i know them and arrested. so we hope that they will find the punishment because they are guilty. so far, fewer than 50 alleged russian war criminals remain and ukrainian custody.

satellite images have become one of the main sources of information about what's happening as the war unfolds photos and videos taken from space, document events on the ground, and provide vital evidence of atrocities. images like this one, showing the destruction of mario paul, a providing crucial insights into russia's war in ukraine. satellite technology has become a game changing tool and documenting atrocities. this is mary, you called before the russian invasion there. this is how the city looked afterwards. merry you pulse theater where hundreds of civilians were sheltering before a devastating air strike. the word children is written on the ground on either side of it as this next image shows that did nothing to deter the attackers. these are

just some examples of how satellite imagery often captured by commercial companies is helping investigators pinpoint what's happening on the ground. when russian troops withdrew from the city of boots or near kiff, ukrainian forces discovered streets lined with the bodies of civilians. russia claimed these scenes were staged by ukraine after its troops had gone. but a satellite image showed what appeared to be bodies lying in the street nearly 2 weeks before the russians left the town. it showed how these pictures can also provide evidence of potential war crimes. year shouldn't think what we have conclusive evidence model satellite images, and we can conduct a full and transparent investigation. that is what we're interested in, a maximum access for journalists, maximum cooperation with international institutions. involvement of the international criminal court, complete truth and full accountability. commercial satellites mean pictures like

these, showing what appears to be mass grave and now widely available. it's changing the way we'll crimes are investigated and could pre vital and ukraine's efforts to hold perpetrators to justice a spring and frank lead, which here he's our regular military analyst and joins us now from oxford in the u . k. frank, how important are these satellite images for investigative teams that are looking into potential war crimes in ukraine? well, very good morning. the recent history is so list to be absolutely crucial, even going back into the ninety's with strep, and it so whether serves were claiming that nothing had happened. satellite image is quite primitive by today's standards, demonstrated that the mass graves have been dug and the preparations have been made for advance. these instruments are now absolutely central in war crimes investigations, especially for corroboration. so there you have

a lot of evidence in your report from human witnesses. people go missing another other evidence. so what satellites can do is corroborate that. they can tell you from looking at the military vehicles, what units, whether they can tell you the date and time of the images to a really close degree of precision. and as we see the butcher, that's been really, really important. how detailed or are these images frank? do they allow for identification of individuals? vehicles and so on. civilian satellites have resolutions of which are the ones you saw that the images of about 15 centimeters not fit to refine. it takes quite a while to get down to that. so, and usually it's about 30 centimeters, not provide a great deal of detail. but it can't do is tell you the identity of individuals, but it can tell you that people are, they're usually what they're wearing colors and so forth. again, with a little bit of

a little bit of work. military satellites are getting to the point now where you almost could recognize people data 5 centimeters. resolution. that's worth saying by the way, that the military satellites and civilian if they use what's called synthetic aperture radiate radar. they can see through cloud to low the resolution as a considerably less than the answer is you can get to a pretty severe degree of accuracy. now, your expertise is military analysis. talk to us about the military value of satellite imagery for the 2 sides in this war or 2. so from the start of the war, the build up of russian forces and that was for commercial imagery. so a stress of military which it tends to be a bit, a bit more bit more precise, but it's still really impressive. so in the visual field, in the visual part of the spectrum, you are watching what happens in real time. don't forget the russians can do that too. so it's very difficult to keep secrets about movement. but there are other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum which it almost is important that even more

so what's called measurement and signature intelligence. so that can tell you in a dynamic battlefield, all the other things that are going on are missiles being launched. when, when a struct, how many missiles are struct artillery concentrations happening? which won't necessarily appear on photographs. but a very, very useful familiar channel is to put together a multi spectral image of a dynamic, fast moving battlefield. they're absolutely central now satellites to military activities. frank, thank you very much shar, that was our military analyst, frank let, which thank you. terry ministers from the group of 7 leading industrial nations are holding climate talks. here in berlin are spiraling energy costs and fuel shortages caused by the war. and ukraine are dominating the agenda. germany says the g 7 trends spearhead the fight against global warming by phasing out coal power. western governments also want to reduce their dependence on

russian. also few or more we can talk to our political correspondent, julius, our daily who's covering the summit for us. so julia, any concrete agreements coming out of this g 7 meeting so far as it been morbid, talking shop. well i've just come out of a press conference with the u. s. climate envoy, john kerry, and germany's climate and economy minnes circle, but how big and they just announced a new climate partnership between the u. s. and germany is a partnership that is focused on many different points, but the focus is on the fact that these 2 countries are being defined as so called the 1st movers in terms of energy transition and move towards a more sustainable energy production. and they intend to work specifically on these topics. they want to work towards building up offshore, wind building up hydrogen production, especially for industry purposes. it is

a huge concern for g 7 countries. how has that impact of the meeting, julia? well, it has definitely been a central issue here. also looking at the fact that a quite a few of the g 7 countries are have become quite dependent on russian energy over the last few decades. if we look at germany, or if you look at italy, for example, and that the, the whole process now of trying to move away and reduce this dependency on russian fossil fuels is ongoing. the challenge here is to try to a further pursue the energy transition and the move towards renewable energy's even a while having to fill a gap in energy sources. and that is a challenge that the minister for germany of all but habit has also highlighted here today. okay, i see, you mentioned that us germany, bilateral agreement were expecting the g 7 members issue a joint commute, a joint communique shortly when the meeting wraps up. any idea what that might say,

what we've heard reports that some of the main topics being discussed, or for example, trying to set a date or at least a commitment to phase out coal in the next decade. and to a we've also heard that one other issue is trying to make the production of electricity, climate neutral. these are all goals that the countries in the g 7 are going to try to agree on. and one other topic that is significant here is how the developed countries and the richest countries in the world. also including the g 7 countries can help sustain and countries in the development world who are bearing the brunt of the consequences of climate change and need a support from the richer counterparts. julia, thank you very much. our correspondent julia shantelle, either just a quick round up of smother stories making headlines around the world. the

palestinian authority says the al jazeera reporter sharina of a clay was killed deliberately by an israeli soldier, a journalist's death 2 weeks ago during an israeli operation. in the west bank cause international outrage, palestinian leadership rejected israel's request or a joint investigation. senegal has begun 3 days of morning for 11 newborn babies killed in a hospital fire official say a short circuit started the blaze. the disaster has brought calls for more accountability in the west african nation. and the us state of oklahoma now has america, strictest abortion ban signed into law by republican governor. kevin's 5th new legislation prohibits almost all terminations. campaigners fear the conservative lead u. s. supreme court will overturn the nationwide right to abortion police

and texas are facing criticism over how long it took them to respond to a shooting. at an elementary school, the killed 19 children and 2 teachers officers shot dead. the attacker nearly an hour after the rampage began. the massacre in you, baldy has re re re ignited the debate over gun control in the united states. d. w. stuff on siemens reports. you well, the texas surrounded by corn farms and cattle ranchers just about 85 kilometers from the u. s. border with mexico. the small town and the south of the lone star state has become a household name for most americans. recently, for all the wrong reasons, a few days ago the world was turned on its head for this type of community. when an 18 year old gunman stormed into rock elementary school, killing $900.00 students and 2 teachers, i heard it really hurts. were all heard. we never thought of this. what happened here? it's just a little small town. everybody's pain, strict confused, paralyzed,

and this in the state of emotional shock, even her children can feel the pain. jeriso says they see me crying, they asked me, why do i cry? and i go because i don't know what i would do without them and i and it hurts to see other parents what they're going through. literally does it hurt and i'm and i can't sleep. i can't sleep at night knowing that those children went to school thinking that they were say, after almost no communication to the public in to the media. the police. finally, days after the massacre at roth elementary school came out with more information about the timeline about what had happened here. the teenage shooter enters the elementary school through an unlocked door guns blazing. 4 minutes later. local police departments are inside. make an entry. they hear gunfire, they take rouse, they move back, get cover. the offices pinned down call for help and help arrives. but only late,

too late, many se, approximately an hour later. us border patrol tactical teams arrive. they make sure to kill the suspect. despite the many unanswered questions, the parents and loved ones of those who died still half despite the grief and pain they and the whole town feuds right now, many here speak up demanding tighter gun control measures. the laws have to be more stricter is too easy. here to get a gun after suppor background checks, and lisa longer process take for them to get the rifles or any any pistols. it's too easy here to get a gun. just across the street from another makeshift memorial for the victims of america's latest mass shooting. this school years top 10 performing high school students are property displayed in front of city hall, almost as if nothing had happened at all in you've all the texas

swedish supergroup abba, have reunited in london for the premier of their long awaited return to the stage. but all the band members were all there on the red carpet for the premiere concert doors are set for a very different experience. the group won't be there in the flesh. digital motion capture technology will bring their younger cells to life is look at what's in store for the fans, the pop legends. ah, this is a taste of what audiences can look forward to at abilene, virtual concerts, holograms called avatars. seen here in their video still have faith in you. the rush for tickets for the 1st shows has been enormous. we are pushing boundaries and we have created something that people have never seen before. oh, the london concert hall was built, especially for the show,

the avatars. are an exact replica of the musicians as they looked in the 1970s me over almost 6 years of development, the band members have had to get used to the site of their virtual cell. ah, ah. he is almost like someone else is me? yes, but he's also on someone else and when i see my avatar on, on, on stage, it really becomes a mixture. it's as if i have kind of infused life into this guy that we see on the screen. the concert was recorded with 160 cameras over 5 weeks. 23 songs were selected,

including some from the new album. and although the musicians aren't on stage in person, that doesn't mean they don't have stage fright. we don't know how the audience will react. i mean, they come there and they see us, but they know that it's actually it's not us. the bond is real. we real here, but not on stage. would it be like sort of applauding a painting or something? i don't know, ah, if they had the tires are convincing. and the rush for tickets continues. there could be concerts in the arena and london for years to come. mm. i see about as no flowers and it is what it is. and i mean, we put our hearts and souls into these have taught us and they will take on from now. do i have with

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